January 2011
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“It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than...”
– — Clay Shirky, from this month’s Fast Company (via christinebeardsell.com)
How true!!!
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Gerd Leonhard: The Future of Media: my presentation at ICTQatar (mediafuturist.com)
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Gerd Leonhard: Dealing with consumer behavior shaped by Social Media (Media Innovation Forum 2011, Dubai) (slideshare.net)
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Futurist.com Blog: Tunisia, Egypt and the Future
By Glen Hiemstra | January 28th, 2011
It is too soon to assess with any accuracy what will be the long-term outcomes of the recent revolution in Tunisia, and the demonstrations growing in intensity right now in Egypt. The implications for the greater Arab world and the Middle East, and the rest of world are unknowable right now.
But I think we can make some observations about likely drivers of...
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Build broad app portfolios, publishers told
Found on Reflections of a Newsosaur: “Publishers can’t base their mobile strategies on a single app for the iPad and another for smart phones, warns a thoughtful new white paper from the International Newsmedia Marketing Association.
Rather, the study says, publishers have to produce an ever-evolving variety of apps for each platform to appeal to an increasingly fragmented market of ...
WatchDealing with consumer behavior shaped by Social Media (Media Innovation Forum 2011, Dubai)
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Futurist.com Blog: Predictive modeling, future...
By Glen Hiemstra | January 25th, 2011
I loved this story today in the Seattle Times newspaper, about a presentation to a conference of 3500 scientists in the American Meteorological Society, by Jim Hansen. Hansen is an applied mathematician at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California. Mr. Hansen’s weather forecast: A Chance of Pirates.
Taking advantage of advances in computing...
Those who can do, those who can’t… teach
TFA Partner Didier Marlier: “My rebellious side fell in love with this quote of G. B. Shaw, brought by Nick McRoberts. We now have wonderful Enablers “intelligent fibers” shirts (Rhodia FiBras) on which the wise words are proudly worn. There is be a profound need for evolution in the world of teaching. I find the following clip (in the post) below quite compelling.
My daughter has...
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Futurist.com Blog: Transportation Vision 2050
By Glen Hiemstra | January 24th, 2011
On January 25, 2011 President Barak Obama will deliver the 2011 “State of the Union” address to the U.S. Congress and the nation. The text of the speech has not yet been released, but reports are that among other things the President will call for are national investments to keep the United States competitive in the future global economy. The idea of...
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What Happens When … A Restaurant crowdfunds ?
Thoughts by TFA Partner Brian Newman: “I don’t usually write up things that are in the NYT unless I am responding to an article or critiquing it. I figure that if something is in the Times, it will get enough traction that it doesn’t need any more help from me. Today, however, I read about something that mixes two of my obsessions - food and crowdsourcing, and I think it...
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Futurist.com blog: Space Tourism 2011
Written by Glen Hiemstra and Catherine Otten
The space experience race is on.
I have always wanted to go into space. It could happen sooner than we think. All I need is the money.
According to the Space Tourism Society, billionaires such as Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson are spending hundreds of millions of dollars building space enterprise/tourism companies. Millions of...
Innovation, innovation, innovation
TFA Partner Alan Moore’s presentation on innovation and entrepreneurship at the HP’s HQ in Cupertino, beginning of January 2011, organised as part of the Global Entrepreneur week:
CES 2011: The Year CES Became a Content Show
by Jack Myers, Media Economist www.jackmyers.com
Quick, answer this question: Is Intel a technology company that manufactures chips or a content distribution company? The answer, according to Intel executives at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is both. The walls that separate technology, content distributors, content producers and marketers have come tumbling down. That was...
Value Chain Disruption in 3D
Post written by Jonathan MacDonald and also published here: http://www.jonathanmacdonald.com/?p=5077
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Over the last few years my standard answer to the question “What is the next big thing?” has been 3D printing.
Initially, reactions ranged from disbelief through to downright fear for my sanity.
I’ve called for us to change our mental image of what ‘printing’ is. It’s currently a 2D...
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Predictions for media industry in 2011 | Trends in... →
Predictions for media industry in 2011
Ross Dawson, January 17, 2011 at 10:28 am
On December 30 Gulf News published a compilation of local and worldwide media personalities’ forecasts for the media industry in 2011. Contributors including Bertrand Pecquerie, Director of the World Editors Forum, Kris Viesselman, President and Creative Director of San Diego Union Tribune, and Gilles Demptos,...
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Gerd Leonhard on the Future of Music & Copyright...
Context: The Future of Music (Presentation at Euroslagt Groningen NL Jan 2010)
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My New Year’s gift for you: free PDFs of my last 3...
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WatchDigital trend watch & best practice for 2011
A must watch presentation on some key digital (marketing) trends to watch in 2011 along with best practice examples and actionable recommendations. To name a few (rather from the first half of the deck that seems to be the more relevant one): Attentionomics, the age of digital curation / the digital curator, developer engagement, transmedia...
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Outlook 2011 by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist.com
Before we offer forecasts for 2011, let’s review how we did with Outlook 2010
Aging 2010 was indeed the final year of preparation for the age wave, but we made only modest progress in getting ready. The U.S. Health Care bill was the most positive step, as it included some needed adjustments to Medicare, and has the promise of restraining the cost of health care a bit. But as the year closed and...
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Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and...
TFA Associate Ross Dawson published this comprehensive insight: “It is traditional at the turn of the year to look forward at what is to come. We have crystallized our thinking on the year ahead and the decade of the 2010s in a new 3-page visual landscape.
Note on ExaTrends: Given the exponential pace of change of today we are far beyond a world of MegaTrends. Exa is the prefix meaning 10...
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IBM Next 5 in 5 -- 2010
p>Recommending: “IBM unveils its fifth annual “Next Five in Five” — a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that can make these...
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The Next Stage of Space Travel
From David Houle at MediaBizBloggers: “A couple of months ago, I was fortunate enough to be given a hard hat tour of Spaceport America. This is where the next stage of space travel will begin in the next 18 months. This is where the dream of private citizens flying into space will be realized. (image (c) Spaceport America Conceptual Images URS/Foster + Partners.)
Spaceport America is in...
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One Minute on Facebook (Video)
Impressive!
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11 Things on My Mind for Twenty11 - Brian Newman...
TFA Associate Brian Newman contemplates: “It’s that time of year when everyone makes their top ten lists, and I’ve done it before and am adding my 11 cents here now. I could just paste in last year’s list below, as all of them are still relevant, but that’s too easy…except for number 1, policy. Unfortunately, this one is much the same as last year, so to make up for this repeat, I’m...
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Glen Hiemstra's Keynote Speech for SONAE Finov...
From TFA Associate Glen Hiemstra’s blog on Futurist.com:
It was my favorite keynote speech of the year. The event was FINOV 2010, an annual event of the SONAE company at which they honor individuals and teams for the innovations of the past year. This year the conference took place in a centuries old former monastery in Porto, Portugal, a spectacular setting.
I was not familiar with...
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Gerd Leonhard's New Year's Gift for You: free PDFs...
A nice surprise by Gerd Leonhard at the start of this new year: “I want to start 2011 in a renewed spirit of generosity and sharing, so here are the complete PDFs of my last 3 books, for free; provided under a Creative Commons,non-commercial, share-alike, attribution license (see below). If you still want to buy the dead-tree versions of these books (or donate something for the free PDFs -...
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JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011
JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011
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Technology As A Barrier To Change
First post of the year on TFA Associate Neil Perkin’s blog “Only Dead Fish”: “New technology is usually viewed as both a driver and an enabler of change. But sometimes the reverse is true.
Big businesses feel comfortable making big decisions about big spends on big solutions. When technology is seen in companies as the solution to a business need, the answer can often...
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Video: Collaborative Consumption Groundswell
Found on Vimeo: “We are at the start of the “Big Shift” away from the 20th century defined by hyper-consumption towards the 21st century, an age of Collaborative Consumption. But just how LARGE and FAR-REACHING is this groundswell?”
Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo.
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Walking the thin line of Authenticity!
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Hilarious video: my blackberry isn't working
From the One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One. Hilarious!
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Striking a Balance: The Yin and Yang of Futuring
Guestpost by Brenda Cooper on TFA Associate Glen Hiemstra’s Futurist.com blog: “
As long as I’ve been alive, humanity has obsessed over its demise – at its own hands. In second grade, stern teachers sent me crawling under desks to avoid nuclear war (talk about a culture of fear – today has nothing on the sixties). Now we are convinced that climate change will do us all in. Both, by...